different between dogging vs hogging

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• (Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?d????/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

dogging (plural doggings)

1. The act of one who dogs or harasses.
   • 1844, George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane, The Pictorial History of England (page 598)

     […] free from the doggings of the common informer, but under the superintendence of the bishop […]

2. (Britain) The practice of having sexual intercourse in public places, especially parks, deliberately taking the chance of being watched.
   • 2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, p. 21:

     Even that […] had been less awful than this date-rape opportunity and likely dogging hotspot, with its hasty skim of tarmac spread like cheap, stale caviar across the pink pedestrian tiles beneath […].

Verb

dogging

1. present participle of dog

English

Pronunciation

Verb

hogging

1. present participle of hog

Noun

hogging (uncountable)

1. (slang) The targeting by men of overweight or obese women for sexual encounters, not due to sexual attraction but for amusement, or to take advantage of low self-esteem.
   • 2009, Esther D. Rothblum, Sondra Solovay, The fat studies reader (page 158)

     […] hogging is used as a tool whereby men create and maintain masculinity.

2. Taking up too much of something so others cannot use it.

Adjective

hogging (not comparable)

1. (nautical) Drooping at the ends; arching; in distinction from sagging.

Derived terms

• hogging frame